Arcadian Daze

Denver producer and visual artist John T. Hastings aka RUMTUM returns to Bastard Jazz for his second album on the label, Arcadian Daze. The album is a contemplative drive down a nostalgic highway, reflecting on a period of his late adolescence growing up in Ohio, spending time at Arcadia Beach on Lake Erie and discovering the likes DJ Shadow, Madlib, Fila Brazilla, early Four Tet, the original Ninja Tune roster and more. Revisiting these coming of age memories, John purchased an older MPC 2000XL and set out to musically capture the excitement of putting his first nascent loops together, inspired by this pivotal era of electronic music that has since birthed movements like such as Lo-Fi/Chillhop, Vaporwave, LAs mid-2000s Beat Scene / Low End Theory, etc. The end result of Arcadian Daze is indeed filled with that nostalgic spirit paying homage to those aforementioned sounds, but also presents a forward thinking musical palate thats very much grounded in RUMTUMs sensibilities as a producer and time spent learning to program new & vintage outboard gear. The album moves away from the warm, dreamy sounds of last years Isles in Indigo LP, and touches more into a mystical, pensive vibe with elements of darkness and light.

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Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Rumtum
Release Date: 24 March 2023
Genre: Dance & Electronic
Label: Bastard Jazz Recordings
Distributor: MGM Music